Homestead Act

According to the excerpt from the Executive Summary of the National Research Council Report, in 1862 around half of the U.S population resided on farms comprising almost 60% employment. Agriculture was necessary and important. For this reason, Land Grant Universities were established to provide land in every state for a college. These colleges would focus on research and educating the public on Agricultural issues. These issues were considered more practical in the real world especially for the

The requirements settlers were forced to complete to own their homestead were unreasonable, given how challenging it was to live on the land. A lack of natural resources made settlers more dependent on stores or their ability to grow adequate crops. Stores could take advantage of their customers because of the distance to neighboring towns. In The Long Winter, Cap Garland and Almanzo go out in the dangerously cold weather to buy wheat from a man wintering on his claim. When they retrieve the wheat

Two years after we had signed the gas lease my father stopped farming. The cows and the pigs were sold to the Baker’s farm on the other side of Iberdeen. So were his two tractors along with most of the other equipment that had taken up real estate on our land. Now our house sat on almost three hundred acres of dirt, grass, hay, fieldstone, history. I had to remind myself every time I came home from work, a copywriting position I had gotten in Dickson City, that this was what home would look like

"A Wagner Matinee," by Willa Cather is a powerful short story encompassing many themes, the Most powerful of which, being one of sacrifice. Our main character Aunt Georgina, like many Homesteaders in the 19th century worked tirelessly raising a family, facing countless days of exhausting labor, and braving whatever the elements decided to throw their way. This homesteader lifestyle and the hardships which accompanied it often meant that anyone who had strong cultural or musical interests would

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treaty signed with France in 1803 by which the U.S. purchased for $15,000,000 the land extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Other causes of westward expansion included the Homestead Act which is An act passed by Congress in 1862 promising ownership of a 160-acre tract of public land to a citizen or head of a family who had resided on and cultivated the land for five years after the initial claim. and African American slaves, traveled

May 1862 marked a major stepping stone toward western settlement. The Homestead act was passed on May 20th 1862, and permitted settlers to settle on 160 acres of pre-government land. The great part was virtually anyone was eligible, and with few requirements lots would take advantage. Although no certificate would be given until a certain time after settlement, this didn’t deter the population from signing up. Lasting more than 100 years it certainly allowed enough time for many generations to claim

James has decided that he is sick of not having enough farmland and that we will start moving our family west to Oregon. We have been farming so close to people, they have basically been on our property. He heard that when we go to Oregon we get 640 acres of land when we start our new life, as long as we have a house built and farming started after a year of being there. After one short year of Matthew getting to know his grandparents and Hope only for three, we are sorrowfully saying that we will

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